{"id":396556,"date":"2025-11-22T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396556\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:48:14","slug":"pershing-squares-official-opening-celebration-marks-the-start-of-the-holiday-season-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396556\/","title":{"rendered":"Pershing Square\u2019s official opening celebration marks the start of the holiday season \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026. Ice skaters braved the elements during the opening ceremonies on November 20. Members of the Los Angeles Ice Theater performed in the rain, and Johanny Velaquez of Air Entertainment flipped through air between ramps.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mng-gallery-initialized mng-gallery-slider\">\n<li data-index=\"1\" class=\"mng-ge mng-gallery-active\" id=\"mng-ge-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Members of the Los Angeles Ice Theater performed in the...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/>\n<p>Members of the Los Angeles Ice Theater performed in the rain. The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026. Ice skaters braved the elements during the opening ceremonies on November 20, 2025 in Los Angeles,, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"2\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Members of the Los Angeles Ice Theater perform. The Holiday...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763801291_844_LDN-L-HOLIDAY-ICE-RINK-1-02.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Members of the Los Angeles Ice Theater perform. The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026. Ice skaters braved the elements during the opening ceremonies on November 20, 2025 in Los Angeles,, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"3\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Johanny Velaquez of Air Entertainment jumps from a ramp. The...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763801292_35_LDN-L-HOLIDAY-ICE-RINK-1-05.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Johanny Velaquez of Air Entertainment jumps from a ramp. The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026. Ice skaters braved the elements during the opening ceremonies on November 20, 2025 in Los Angeles,, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"4\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-3\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Rachel Clement performs with hula hoops in this motion blur...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763801293_690_LDN-L-HOLIDAY-ICE-RINK-1-03.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Rachel Clement performs with hula hoops in this motion blur photo. The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026. Ice skaters braved the elements during the opening ceremonies on November 20, 2025 in Los Angeles,, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"5\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Grand Arts Holiday Jazz Carolers from Ramon C. Cortines School...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763801294_727_LDN-L-HOLIDAY-ICE-RINK-1-04.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Grand Arts Holiday Jazz Carolers from Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts entertain the crowd with holiday inspired music. The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026. Ice skaters braved the elements during the opening ceremonies on November 20, 2025 in Los Angeles,, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Los Angeles Ice Theater performed in the rain. The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026. Ice skaters braved the elements during the opening ceremonies on November 20, 2025 in Los Angeles,, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grand Arts Holiday Jazz Carolers from Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts entertained the crowd with holiday inspired music. Pershing Square\u2019s official opening celebration in downtown Los Angeles marks the start of SoCal\u2019s holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Holiday Ice Rink at Pershing Square returned downtown and will be open now through January 11, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,44679,7709,2961,224,5337,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-396556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115592489386371679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}